THE G.O.A.T. RETURNS

NFL / Football

Written by Joel Lefevre

Tom Brady is returning for a 23rd NFL season.

The final chapter for the NFL G.O.A.T. has yet to be written.

Source (Background Photo): AP Photo/Adam Hunger

A couple of months after announcing his retirement, Tom Brady has done a complete 180 and will be returning for the 23rd season in the league.

Brady took to Twitter to announce his triumphant return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

“These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands,” he wrote.

“That time will come. But it’s not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family.

They make it all possible. I’m coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. Unfinished business LFG.”

It will be his third season with the Bucs, who were knocked out in the NFC Divisional Round in the 2021 season, losing to the eventual Super Bowl champions, the Los Angeles Rams.

The Tampa pivot became the oldest player in the league’s history to throw for at least 5,000 yards last year, and his passing yards total in the regular season (5,316) marked the third most for a single season in NFL history.

Brady is tied with Otto Graham for the most championships in Pro Football with 7, while throwing the most career touchdown passes (624), most career pass completions (7,263), most passing yards (84,520) and most career TD passes in the NFL (624).

In his 2 seasons with the Bucs, he has a regular-season record of 24-9, posting the two most successful back-to-back seasons in the franchise’s history, and helping them to their best-ever regular season last year, going 13-4.

The man who grew up in San Mateo, California, will turn 45 in August.

He has been to 10 Super Bowls, winning six for the New England Patriots and one for the Bucs in 2020.